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  • Hit & Run

    Daring Air Attacks in World War II

    by Robert Jackson ...
    The book describes some of the most daring air attacks of World War II. Some were outstanding successes and some were unmitigated disasters. North Sea Battle: In the early weeks of World War II, Britain and Germany were determined to attack one another's warships in their respective naval bases. Both RAF and Luftwaffe learned the folly of sending unescorted bombers into enemy territory. Flames ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fear in the Sky

    Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two

    by Pat Cunningham ...
    The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork. A crew of seven may have comprised all non commissioned men and some crews included commissioned officers but not always flying as pilots. The outstanding fact was that each man relied on every other member of his crew to return from each mission safely ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Tornado Over the Tigris

    Recollections of a Fast Jet Pilot

    by Michael Napier ...
    A Royal Air Force pilot recounts his service flying Tornados over Cold War-era Germany and post-Gulf War Iraq in this thrilling military memoir.After achieving a boyhood ambition to qualify as an RAF pilot, Michael Napier was posted to RAF Bruggen in Germany where he spent five years flying Tornado GR1s at the height of the Cold War. Always exhilarating and often dangerous, Michael Napier’s ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Fighter Aircraft Since, 1945

    by Frank Schwede ...
    series Fact File
    The world's first jet engines were already available shortly before the end of the Second World War, but they had not been developed to a high enough standard to take part. This changed after 1945 when, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, one technological development surpassed the others and records tumbled almost every week. The era of the piston engine was finally over and jet fighters now ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sukhoi Su-15

    The Boeing Killer

    by Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov ...
    Book 15 - FlightCraft
    A history of this supersonic Soviet interceptor, including useful information for model makers.In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already an established fighter maker, started work on a successor to its Su-9 and Su-11 single-engined interceptors for the national Air Defense Force. Similar to its predecessors, the new aircraft, designated Su-15, had delta wings; unlike the Su-9/Su-11, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Clash of Eagles

    USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe in World War II

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    The story of the air war over Western Europe, told firsthand by the American and German pilots and crew who took part—with never-before-published photos.What was it like to fly through the dense flak over the Ruhr and against the German Experten and to be hit by machine gun and cannon fire from Focke Wulf 190s and Bf 109s? How did so many badly damaged bombers manage to struggle back, against all ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Back Bearings

    A Navigator's Tale

    by Eric Cropper ...
    Eric Croppers RAF career started in 1943 and ended in 1968. It covered a period when the navigation of aircraft changed from astro, dead reckoning and drift bearings all plotted by pencil on charts, to press-button radio and satellite information that can instantly pinpoint a position anywhere on the planet to within 5 meters. The then vital skills of a good navigator are now mostly redundant. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft

    The Golden Years 1945–1975

    by Malcolm V. Lowe, Neil Robinson, Martin Derry ...
    “An attractive book . . . chock full with photos and drawings of all the planes that have been drawn and built in these years in the UK.” —AviationBookReviews.comIt could be argued that the heyday of British military aircraft flight testing began in the 1940s, and continued throughout the three decades that followed, during the so-called Cold War period. As such, the authors have purposely chosen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Infamous Aircraft

    Dangerous Designs and their Vices

    by Robert Jackson ...
    An in-depth look at some of the 20th century’s notoriously terrible aircraft.Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War I to the age of supersonic flight. The following aircraft are included . . .B.E.2: The Royal Flying Corps went to war in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mosquito Mayhem

    de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

    by Martin W. Bowman ...
    The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous flash lit up the sky about 50 yards ahead of our nose and exactly at our altitude. Within a tenth of a second we were through the cloud of dirty ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Millionaires' Squadron

    The Remarkable Story of 601 Squadron and the Flying Sword

    by Tom Moulson ...
    Imagined by an aristocrat in White's Club, London in 1925, a part-time squadron of wealthy young men with their own private aircraft was incorporated into a newly-established combat-ready Auxiliary Air Force, first as bombers, then fighters. The pre-war years combined serious training with frivolity and mischief, but the outbreak of war in 1939 changed that. Despite their social rank the pilots ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Flying Freestyle

    An RAF Fast Jet Pilot's Story

    by Jerry Pook ...
    A British Royal Air Force pilot recounts his 25-year career in the cockpit during the Cold War in this military memoir.During a twenty-five-year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the Tornado bomber at the Tri ... Read more

    $2.99 USD